沸 in English

Measure word

• 度 dù to pass; to spend (time); measure; limit; extent; degree of intensity; degree (angles, temperature etc); kilowatt-hour... attested in use

How it used to be written

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 4 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 把蛋放入沸水中。

  Put the egg into boiling water.

• 水沸腾后变为蒸汽。

  Water turns into steam when it is boiled.

• 牛奶的沸点比水高。

  Milk boils at a higher temperature than water.

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